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Cutlery Category Manager - GP PRO

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
133 Peachtree Street Northeast (Show on map)
Jan 07, 2025
Your Job

Would you like to play an integral part in the growth of the Dixie Cutlery category? Would you like to work on the CPG business with the highest ROCC (Return on Capital)? Are you interested in working on a team that has an opportunity to double the size of the cutlery business over the next 5 years? Then this opportunity is for you.

The Dixie team is currently seeking a dynamic Category Manager for the cutlery business. In this role you will be responsible for driving growth, profitability, and innovation within the cutlery business. This role requires strategic leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and an entrepreneurial approach to market opportunities. This is a hybrid role based in Atlanta.

What You Will Do
* Drive year-over-year improvements in financial results, maximizing volume and profitability by working through your internal capability partners.
* Execute strategies for the cutlery business that are in alignment with the overall Dixie strategies.
* Partner with supply chain to manage demand and supply for cutlery to support service levels while considering working capital.
* Provide support to the sales teams including general questions, pricing requests, production and quality issues, customer interaction, manufacturing feasibility, etc.
* Understand competitive landscape to identify threats and opportunities; leverage insights to drive strategy and tactics.
* Use principled entrepreneurship to garner ideas and frame opportunities using the Five Dimensions and DMF thinking with supporting financials and through challenge process.
* Relentless experiment with promotions, sales tactics and pricing to increase our win rate.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
* Bachelor's degree or 4 years of experience
* 3 years of experience in product management, sales, finance, marketing, sourcing, supply chain management or related field.
* Experience with critical and economic thinking
* Willing to travel 10% of the time

What Will Put You Ahead
* Knowledge of category management (branding, supply chain, sourcing, pricing, marketing, and sales)
* Prior sales experience
* Price management experience
* Experience leading projects and problem solving
* Data analysis experience
* Experience working with manufacturing operations

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy [1] here.

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [2] business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click [3] here for additional information.

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